[ closed ]Little Kitchen: nice average simple meal

We were really stumped where to find decent dinner at times. Some wanted comfort aircon, some wanted chinese, some wanted western tinge, so it may not be easy to find a size to fit all. Considering the comfort, usually it would be those fusion kopitiam style of joints, with the normal Chinese taichow style of dishes with some chops, pasta, and even with sometimes some japs/ korean mix.

Since, Bandar Baru Kampar is currently

mushrooming this kind of joints, we just

drove around to see which one was not tried

before. Tucked in the square near KamJing, Purple Forest, 21st; Little Kitchen is just in the same row as KongHin, the dimsum shop, next to the dentist. You can enter the shop via the front door, or the backdoor, which is exactly opposite Grand Kampar Hotel. You wont miss the red billboard with a pair of fork and spoon. Nicely design board, if you ask me.

The shop itself is rather compact. Small. Crowded with students most of the time. But this itself gave a cosy homely feel to the shop. The kitchen is in the middle of the shop. Service was rather fast, despite the shop is full of patrons. Aircon is not cold enough though given it is always full.

Menu: what can I say, the usual chinese variants of dishes. Really extensive list of Chinese dishes. Like the usual taichow. There is a decent list of western fusion type of dishes as well, the usual chops and rice. There is no beef served though. Most of the set cost RM5-6, and the dishes cost less than RM10. You can tell that it is geared towards students.

Overall, the dish is not bad. Mine was Mandarin style (Jingdao) pork slice with rice. The sauce is rather nice. Bit sour with more sweet, like the pork rib king style of sauce. The meat is rather generic as you can tell. Simple meat deep fried with flour. It is the sauce which save the dish. Dad's sweet and sour fish slice with rice was bit of a letdown as the sauce is not tasty enough. Felt like a cheap tomato sauce. You cant really taste the fish either, more of flour. Mum ordered HongKong style pork chop rice. Basically it is just sweet and sour sauce, which again, did not impress me. The meat was marinated better this time though. But still generic. Aunt's Mandarin style chicken chop was rather small. The sauce was good, which was the saving grace.

Overall, the food is on par with others, average at the most, but sometimes, less is more. It felt simple, decent if not asking for more. The price and the patrons would already tell you that you would expect the same chicken or pork readily fried, and served with different sauce for different dishes.

ratings: 3 poink!

comments: feeling generous today, food was average, but service is nice, shop is cosy. That help the dinner to be rather simple and nice.